Living In Place

We have snow! Tim and I took time off to ski: Four days, forty kilometers, four hundred sore muscles. The sign of a good vacation is finding returning to my desk restful. Happy...

Volume Three is now available Vermont Almanac: Stories from and for the Land, Volume Three, includes stories, essays, poetry and information by and about Vermont and Vermonters,...

Missing Winter Sports I once vowed I’d never to a gym, not if I could snap on my skis to tour the field or buckle on my snowshoes and head up the hill. But there’s been...

Social Connections & Happiness Leaving Twitter made not one iota of difference to my social network, but completing this year’s Happiness Challenge certainly did. The...

We are not promised tomorrow Be kind today. We are not promised tomorrow Pay your debts, forgive those owed you. We are not promised tomorrow Don’t delay, do it now. We are not...

To tweet, or not to tweet, that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the long run to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous egos, Or to take steps against their stream of...